Nighttime social media posts can reveal the state of sleeplessness across the country, with new "social sensing approach" demonstrated by researchers in analyzing US sleep trends during the COVID-19 pandemic
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Daily geotagged tweet quantities during daytime and nighttime in U.S. states from March 2020 to June 2021.
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Article URL: https://plos.io/4zFRISO
Article title: Sleepless in America: A social sensing study of pandemic-era sleeplessness using nighttime social media data
Author countries: USA.
Funding: This work was supported by the University of New Mexico Office of the Vice President for Research, WeR1 Faculty Success Program, https://research.unm.edu/, to XG; the University of New Mexico Office of the Vice President for Research, Research Allocations Committee (RAC) awards, https://research.unm.edu/, (Grant Nos. #8oh6a4x35h and #gvvrxwyj64) to XG; the University of New Mexico FRESSH Pilot Program, https://research.unm.edu/, to XG; the University of New Mexico College of Arts & Sciences Interdisciplinary Science Cooperative through the Office of Research, https://arts.unm.edu/research/, (Faculty Team Research Concept Competition Award #TA-1003) to XG; and the Penn State Institute for Computational and Data Sciences, https://www.icds.psu.edu/, Rising Researcher Award (RRID:SCR_025154) to XG. The funders had no role in study design, data collection and analysis, decision to publish, or preparation of the manuscript.
Journal
PLOS One
Article Title
Sleepless in America: A social sensing study of pandemic-era sleeplessness using nighttime social media data
Article Publication Date
9-Sep-2026
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